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2007-08-12 Home Front: Politix

How the Fight for Vast New Spying Powers Was Won

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Posted by Bobby 2007-08-12 07:09|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 I dunno. I think the swastika is kind of appropriate.

Posted by Pappy 2007-08-12 13:06|| 2007-08-12 13:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Ya know, yer right, Pappy. Sometimes I forget about the WW II connection. But at least the Nazis had rules.

Posted by Bobby 2007-08-12 13:41|| 2007-08-12 13:41|| Front Page Top

#3 No, they were a bunch of little passive-aggressive shits just like the idjits we have today. They overran Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, the Low Countries, and France, all the while whining loudly about how they were the poor downtrodden victim.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-08-12 13:54|| 2007-08-12 13:54|| Front Page Top

#4 The more important issue is what rights the people of America get back from the Govt. once the WOT + Global World Order, etc. is won. NO US VICTORY, NO RIGHTS TO BE RETURNED SAVE AT THE LEISURE OF AMER'S OWG ENEMIES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-08-12 19:47|| 2007-08-12 19:47|| Front Page Top

#5 What McConnell wanted most from Congress was to be able to intercept, without a warrant, purely foreign-to-foreign communications that pass through fiber-optic cables and switching stations on U.S. soil. That provision was meant to restore a U.S. capability that existed three decades ago, when a 1978 law allowed warrantless surveillance of foreign calls that were overwhelmingly relayed wirelessly.

Jeebus, they couldn't even agree on foreign-to-foreign calls? Where no US citizens were even involved? And, thanks, once again, to Jimmuh Carter, I assume that former law was overturned.

On a side note, I caught a local AM talk show here in Atlanta on the radio late yesterday. They were looking for ideas for a new State (Georgia) motto, since we no longer are the leader in Peach Production ("The Peach State"; supposedly, we're now #29 in peaches, I guess all our illegals go to producing chickens, which we're #1 at). Anyhoo, one guy called in and suggested "We're sorry" as our new State motto. The host asked why, and the caller said "Two little words that have haunted Georgia forever...President Carter!" I just about hit the roadside ditch laughing so hard over that one comment.

Posted by BA 2007-08-12 22:26|| 2007-08-12 22:26|| Front Page Top

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